Background

The Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development has and continues to serve student leader on the San Francisco State campus through training, advising, risk management, etc. OSPLD is in the process of developing an additional leadership development initiative to best support student and student organizations at SF State. This new initiative comes for a variety of reasons:

1. Changing demographics with more students living on campus with each academic year. With the upcoming 2007-2008 academic year, over 50% of the freshmen class will live Residence Life facilities.
2. Review of graduation rate and retention
3. 2004-2005 CSU audit of OSPLD and other CSU Student Activities programs
4. Leadership survey conducted by OSPLD in the fall of 2005

Leadership experience creates and builds a foundational sense of identity in your community (personal, local, global) while at SF State. In ÒbecomingÓ an active member in the community, a sense of leadership will be expressed through the participant's experiences, roles and responsibilities. Students taking a leadership role take action towards addressing themes and issues in their own development, their organization, and the SF State community.

Event Proposal
Mission

Leadership in Action develops, facilitates, and promotes student leadership within SF State and surrounding communities, educating students to be conscientious citizens at SF State and beyond.

Objectives

Leadership in Action has several objectives:

1. Assist with strengthening a sense of community on campus/ in turn assist with retention
2. Connect faculty, administrators, and staff with student leaders
3. Strengthen student leadership on campus and in community
4. Educate students regarding University expectations/policies, procedures, resources, theoretical models, etc for leadership development
5. Improve communication skills/interactions with others
6. Bring focus to issues of social justice, equity and civility
7. Assist students in developing a comprehensive portfolio to prepare for the job market
8. Recognize student leadership
9. Connect students with already existing leadership programs
10. Compliment current OSPLD training

Event Dates

Leadership in Action will launch Fall 2007 in its first of three phases. Each year the program will develop and grow as needed.

Participation

All SF State students will be welcome to participate in the leadership program.

Venues

Leadership in Action will include multiple programs occurring at key campus locations including Student Center, OSPLD, Residence Life, and Classrooms.

Program Layout

Year One (07/08)

• Open workshops on various leadership topics
• Develop online leadership resources
• Start development of leadership library
• Assessment of year and needs for phase two

Year Two (08/09)

• Academic class on leadership development
• Increase number of topic options for open workshops/ Leadership certificate program
• Continue to develop online leadership resources
• Continue to development leadership library o Develop student leadership consultant training
• Assessment of year and needs for phase three

Year Three (09/10)

• Academic class on leadership development
• Open workshops on various leadership topics
• Host OSPLD Leadership Retreat/Conference
• Online leadership resources complete (updated as needed)
• Open leadership library/ Open house
• Launch student leadership consultant program (workshops provided to student organizations/groups on appointment basis)
• Continual assessment of program Planning Structure
• Research into best practices on other University campuses
• Research into leadership tools available
• Feedback from SF State community through:
• 2005-2006 survey from student leaders and advisors
• Student leader feedback sessions o Residence Life community feedback
• OSPLD Advisory committee

University Partners

OSPLD, Residence Life, Associated Students Inc., Risk Management, Public Affairs, UPD, Student Center, Student Affairs, Academic Senate, etc.

Publicity

To promote the program the following publicity resources will be utilized:

1. Development of a Leadership in Action website linked from OSPLD site
2. Student organization email listserv
3. Letter to student organization boxes
4. Orientation announcement/tours/information
5. MySpace site developed for program
6. Residence Life (fliers, email announcements, RAs)
7. Press release

Please let OSPLD know what you think of the proposal and any comments or suggestions you may have. Please email your feedback to Joey Greenwell, Director, at joey@sfsu.edu. Thank you.